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The bottom line is that NCAR has some deep problems, which Kintisch describes in some detail, with a surprising number of climate modelers willing to go the record with strong criticisms of NCAR and UCAR management. One thing seems clear, more money won’t improve bad management, and may have the opposite effect. NSF needs to get UCAR and NCAR in line, before entities higher up the food chain step in and start asking questions.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Not Nearly Top of the League Table

Over at Dot Earth Andy Revkin points to a call by climate science organizations for a doubling of their current level of funding during the period 2010-2014, asking for almost $20 billion (available here in PDF),as part of the priorities of the next U.S. administration.

The incoherence of the request is remarkable. They invoke Hurricane Katrina as an example of the sort of costly disaster that better models and predictions will help us deal with...